Mar 29, 2010

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New Views of Nietzsche

One hundred years ago [1887] Thus Spoke Zarathustra appeared. The most celebrated work of Nietzsche, it has been read and cited by even moderately educated people. The German philosopher has a stormy reputation due to his tirades against Christianity and his aristocratic rejection of conventional moral views. Nietzsche provokes all kinds of reactions. Each reader may have his own...

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Nov 26, 2009

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Leon Trotsky, Barack Obama, & the Black “Vanguard of the Revolution”

From Vdare.com, November 16, 2009Last summer, Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House of Representatives, introduced Barack Obama at a San Francisco fundraiser as “a leader that God has blessed us with at this time” (‘Blessed’ Barack Obama sounds a note of caution as the cash rolls in, by Tom Baldwin, London Times, August 19, 2008).And just few days ago, the rock...

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Oct 30, 2009

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Review of Thomas Wheatland, The Frankfurt School in Exile,
Part II: The Critique of Mass Culture

From The Occidental Observer, October 28, 2009. . . In reading the views of the Frankfurt School on the importance of cultural control, it struck me that those of us attempting to preserve the traditional peoples and culture of the West are in a similar situation to the Frankfurt School and the New York Intellectuals. Their complaints about the American culture of the 1930s through...

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Oct 20, 2009

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Review of Thomas Wheatland’s The Frankfurt School in Exile, Part I:
Authoritarianism and the Family

From The Occidental Observer, October 19, 2009Thomas Wheatland’s book, The Frankfurt School in Exile, provides a useful historical account of the travels, connections, and ideas of an important Jewish intellectual movement. The Institute for Social Research began as an orthodox Marxist organization during the Weimar period. During this period, they were dedicated to studying the...

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Sep 11, 2009

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Resurrecting Woodstock?

From The Occidental Observer, September 10, 2009Sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. A time-proven recipe for poor choices. Forty years ago this summer a group of young promoters organized what is regarded as a milestone in popular music history. The result was a celebration of free love and tuning out.The Woodstock Music Festival’s original producer Michael Lang had planned...

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Sep 5, 2009

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The Mysterious German Professor

From The Occidental Observer, September 3, 2009The Atlantic Recording Company’s history strangely parallels the Jewish-American elite’s cultural revolution after World War II. This elite promoted Frankfurt School teaching in a effort to weaken the middle classes — their political nemesis. Atlantic Records prides itself on plugging the same socially destructive...

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Sep 3, 2009

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Adorno as Critic:
Celebrating the Socially Destructive Force of Music

The Frankfurt School was a group of predominantly Jewish intellectuals associated with the Institute for Social Research. It originated during the Weimar period in Germany, and became a bastion of the cultural left. With the rise of National Socialism, the Frankfurt School was closed by the German government, and many of its members emigrated to America.Theodor Adorno was the...

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Jul 10, 2009

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The Next Conservatism?

Paul M. Weyrich and William S. Lind, The Next Conservatism (South Bend: St. Augustine’s Press, 2009).There are, in my view, only a handful of contemporary “conservative” thinkers in the US worth reading. William Lind is one of them.Associated with the “cultural conservatism” of the Free Congress Foundation (which “advocates the creation of...

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